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Oh, I thought your link would be a reference to the lat time Roald Dahl himself was rewritten. The author of this article doesn't seem aware of, or just leaves
by majormajor 4y ago
Oh, I thought your link would be a reference to the lat time Roald Dahl himself was rewritten.
The author of this article doesn't seem aware of, or just leaves out, the previous slaves-from-Africa origin of oompa loompas.
I wonder if he wants to roll that one back too.
- willcipriano 4y agoThis is just a historical example of someone editing a childrens book and doing so poorly as to ruin the art of the work. Many pieces of art were vandalized in a similar manner, I haven't found a single case in antiquity where modern people, in western countries at least, are in favor of the censorship of the past.
- majormajor 4y agoIf only I still had the textbooks that were used to teach me about slavery and the civil war in Texas. Revisionism for days. People didn't see the censorship in the same way as that "fish don't have a word for water" bit.